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The Dispatch from Moline, Illinois • 8

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The Dispatchi
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Moline, Illinois
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8 DAILY DISPATCH, MOLINE, ILLINOIS: THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1939. NEW IDEA TRIED NES CAN 11 Six Die as Street Car Jumps Tracks in Boston TO DIRECT PLAY AT AUGUSTANA MARCH 9 Fire Extinguished At Deere Building; Damage I 8 Slight became stuck, causing the belt to slide on the pulley. Friction ignited grease on the fan and shaft. Five sprinkler system heads burst, re. leasing a quantity of water on ma-chinery.

Firemen used three galioru of chemicals in extinguishing the blaze. CANCER HOBOES AM "Flying Freight Cars That's Moline firemen were called to Building of Deere a 15-story structure at Thirteenth street and Third avenue, at 6:41 this morning to extinguish a blaze that caused minor damage. Firemen said a blower fan used to transfer heat to the warehouse Lemon Goes Long Way. Delphi, Ind. (fP) Mrs.

John Hoi. singer baked ten lemon pies with the juice of one lemon she brought home from Florida. The lemon weighed two and one-half pounds. French Scientists Work with Artificial Radio-Activity Theory. the Bunk," Says Transients' "Official." Chicago.

(INS) Officials of Transcontinental Western Air, Paris. (INS) Artificial radioactivity today is where aviation was thirty years ago. But in fifty years It may have eliminated cancer as a announce "with regret" that hoboes of America are in for a most shocking disappointment if they expect any free rides along the air oread disease. For Joliot-Curie and his wife, co- discovers of induced radio-activity, ways in 1939. are concentrating their efforts on the biological reaction of certain ra Attention to the hoboes was drawn by an item the "Hoboes of America 1939 Year Book, Encyclo tio-activated substances and in par ticular Its effect on cancerous tis cues.

pedia and Reference Manual" de claring that specially designed "fly lng box cars" would be employed on In their laboratory at the College de Prance here, Joliot-Curie has an all-freight air express by TWA I and that maybe a fellow could hop a ride. installed the most modern scientific equipment of its kind in the world. "Our laboratories are the- only ones in the world which possess five different apparati for bombarding The TWA officials take the whole thing as a joke and, while they are i 1 II Ml' sympathetic with the chaps who ALICE INGALLS. Alice Ingalls, instructor of and journalism at Augustana would like a free ride, brand the whole idea as pure nonsense. college, will direct a play to be Slim Brundage, a high official' of given at the college March 9 en the Chicago Hobo college himself, in titled Giants in the Earth, by O.

E. bewailine the fact that present-day Rolvaag. Miss Ingalls takes the hoboes are handicapped by a place Prof. John Ostrom as stream-lined society, pointed out: "There ain't no flying freight cars, dramatic director at the college. That's ttye bunk.

Furthermore how can any one hop a ride on an air plane? There ain't no place to ride The gaping hole In this street car shows the terrific force with which it struck a tree (foreground) after leaping from its rails in Boston when brakes failed tp hoid. The car plunged across the street killing six persons and injuring nearly two score. This picture was made as emergency wrecking crews arrived soon after the crash. You can't deck 'em out on account of the fact the top is as slick as a greased hog. There ain't no blinds on 'em.

There ain't even a rod. It's ments throughout the bodiss of the animals was studied. just hopeless." The cast of the play Is as follows: Beret Ruth Robinson. Ola William Baehr. Per Hansa Eugene Larson.

O'Hara Earl Bloomquist. Tonsten Howard Frank. Henry Solum James Haymaker. Hans Olsa William Gutshall. Joe Gill Robert Householder.

Kiersti Sylvia Bostrum. Sorina Betty Skogberg. Minister Arnold Nelson. Alsa Tjome Birt Harris. Mrs.

Tjome Melnotte Anderson. Bridget Sylvia Strum. Sam Solum Fal Wood. "We find that certain elements TWA men say that maybe the which demands a miracle; the public which wishes us to 'make gold' must have patience. ''Artificial radio-activity, 5 years old, Is-today at the stage of avia atoms," he stated.

Importance of Work. "The importance of our work may be judged roughly when one realizes that there are only ten grams of radium in the whole worid yet we have already prepared such quantities of radio activated elements that at least thirty grams would have been needed for the laboratory work. Joliot-Curie has work on a new tube which he states is the only one in the world which will permit obtention of X-rays under a tension of 2.600,000 volts and which even surpasses the gamma rys emitted by radium. "It is difficult if not impossible lo foresee what will be the scientific tomorrow. We have scarcely launched out into a new domain which we hope will eventually shed a new light on cancer," Mr.

Joliot-Curie related. Experiments on Animals. "Already we have tried numerous experiments on animals including rats and rabbits. It Is of little importance to us whether the animal be healthy or cancerous; our-task lies elsewhere." The scientist explained that only the distribufc-on of radio-active ele- "flying box car" idea grew out of are localized in the liver, others in the thyroid glands; that a rat killed their move about three years ago when the airline removed all the at varying periods after absorption of the radio-active rays of various tion thirty years ago. Aviation has progressed considerably since.

We seats from its tri-motored planes intensities." and converted them into an air ex may hope that artificial radio-ac press unit. For the last two years, He stressed the Importance of tivity will do likewise. Perhaps, in this as probably one of the crucial however, all express has been carried in the express compartment of which is active for several thousand years, spreads everywhere blindly. Lasting much) less, several fractions of a second, several minutes or several hours, the chosen artificial radio-active element will only affect the cancerous cells." Joliet-Curie related the difficulties he has had in the last few years with previous poor equipment and underpaid assistants and stated that at times the work was "heartbreaking," pointing out that the new tube had broken five times, retarding progress Immeasurably. But everything was ready now.

Goal in Sight. "We are now nearing our goal. But we may not satisfy the public 50 or 100 years cancer will only be a myth similar to the leprosy that decimated medieval Europe," he re moves in the final elimination of cancer. the big passenger ships. GIRL INJURED IN HAYRACK "Suppose the disease be localized lated.

"Three hundred and twenty art! in such or such an organ, we can CRASH RETURNS TO WORK attempt to accumulate in that re gion a quantity of artificial radio ficial radio-activated elements have been created as against only forty naturally radio-active elements. To equipment alongside of X-rays or anti-rabies serums," he concluded. REVENUE OFFICES READY FOB INCOME TAX RUSHES Rock Island. March 2. Miss active elements which will destroy the diseased cells without harming the healthy.

morrow, radio-iodine, radio-phos phorous, radio-carbonates will Dorothy Wilson, 1545 Twenty-ninth street. Rock Island, returned to her work at the J. I. Case company a i m's destruction power, doubtless form part of a doctor's See It offices In Rock Island yesterday after having been confined to Moline tmblic hospital and her home since last October 31 when she in curred a fracture of her back in a fall from a hayrack. She was with ROGERS -MAYTAG CO 2 STORES 1413 5th Ave.

Moline 1187 1816 3d Ave. Rock Isuand 262 a group of friends on a Hallowe'en Augmented staffs In the Moline and Bock Island internal revenue offices are preparing for a rushing business since local citizens have only until March 15 to file income tax reports. Marc F. Koenig, deputy collector in charge of the Rock Island office, said that extra deputies have been sent from Chicago and that there are now three full-time deputies In both the Moline and Rock Island offices. hayrack ride when the accident occurred.

II Dispatch Want bring results. The New $147,980 LOW BID ON LE CLAIRE DAM SYSTEM 1939 FMVTM WASHER C. A. Hooper of Madison, with a price of $147,980, was apparent low bidder yesterday afternoon on a power and light control installation to be made at the dam near Hampton and LeClalre. Only $1 Down Now Only The bid, lowest of five submitted on the system, was well below the estimate of $160,174.80 by Rock Island district United States engi Liberal Allowance for Old Washer neers.

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